SCHOOL OF LANGUAGE - Sea From Shore released 4th February 2008 on Memphis Industries

This is a very limited edition version of the album with 3 exclusive bonus tracks

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In April 2007, Sunderland trio Field Music (David Brewis, Peter Brewis and Andrew Moore) announced in a round-a-bout way that they were clearing their diary of all band activity in the hope that a change of situation and expectation might help them to become as productive as they'd always hoped they would be.

The first fruits of this new creative dawn is David Brewis's School of Language. Primarily recorded by David alone and consciously susceptible to the cut-and-paste, multi-tasking tangents induced by laptop recording, these constructions are resolutely un-band-like, veering between the intricate and unplayable and the solitary and unadorned, their cohesion stemming from an embrace of all that is most obtuse and personal.

Sea From Shore is bookended by the quartet of 'Rockist' tracks, a series of daydreams on words, their meanings and the decisions which follow from them, all underpinned by a collection of incessant looped voices. The album can, in some ways, be seen as a companion piece to Tones of Town but where that record was preoccupied with the choices resulting from questions of time and place, here time is tied to people - often because of their absence, but at other times because their closeness is what rejuvenates us.

"As an exquisitely contemplative guitar line cuts through the opening miasma of looped vowel sounds, it's clear erstwhile Field Music mainstay Peter Brewis has not blunted his experimental edge in the quest for solo success. And this subtly captivating solo debut builds a suitably grand yet homely edifice on the sure foundation of his old band's thrillingly ornate pastoral chamber-pop". **** OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY

"At first glance, Peter and David Brewis' decision to shelve Field Music ranks among the year?s more perverse career moves. Three months after January?s Tones of Town showcased the Sunderland group?s gift for clinical but uniquely affecting pop, its fraternal brainbank announced they planned to indefinitely operate apart.
School of Language is David?s current guise, Sea From Shore the work of a man pursuing a generous (if mazy) muse through tracks coloured by laptop-looped vowel sounds, crisp instrumentation and expansive, synth-segued arrangements. At times it verges on the frantic, Disappointment 99 running measured riot before being reined-in by rabbit-from-a-hat shifts in structure and Brewis? own warm, elastic northeast lilt. Between Poor Boy's squelch-bass shuffle and the 'Big Sound' tremors of Rockist Part 3 (Aposiopesis), the thrill is in both its fluency and the sure knowledge of much more to come". **** MOJO